Poetry & Figurative Language
This device gives human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
This rhetorical appeal is based on emotion.
→ What is pathos
Objects, colors, or characters representing deeper ideas is called:
→ What is symbolism?
The man in "The Tell Tale Heart" hears the heartbeat because he is feeling this emotion after the murder?
→ What is guilt?
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” uses this device.
→ What is alliteration?
In “Mother to Son,” the mother compares life to this.
What is a staircase?
This rhetorical appeal is based on logic and facts.
→ What is logos?
In “Fire and Ice,” fire symbolizes this.
→ What is desire?
In The Gift of the Magi, Jim and Della each give up something they love, showing this theme.
→ What is selfless love / sacrifice?
A comparison using like or as.
→ What is simile?
The line “The woods are lovely, dark and deep” is an example of this device.
What is imagery?
The repeated phrase “I have a dream” is an example of which sound device?
→ What is repetition?
What is ice a symbol for in the poem "Fire and Ice"
→ What is hate?
→ What is hate?
Why does the murderer in "The Tell Tale Heart" murder the old man?
He thinks his eye is creepy.
A reference to the Bible, history, or literature.
→ What is allusion?
The comparison “Life is a journey” is an example of this.
→ What is a metaphor?
A line like “If you don’t help now, children will starve” is an example of this rhetorical appeal.
→ What is pathos?
Della’s hair and Jim’s watch in The Gift of the Magi symbolize this.
→ What is sacrifice or love?
The gifts in The Gift of the Magi are an example of this literary device.
What is symbolism?
A description that appeals to the five senses creates this.
→ What is imagery?
In “A Bird Came Down the Walk,” the line “he (the bird) rowed him softer home” is an example of this technique.
→ What is personification?
In MLK’s speech, a reference to the American Dream, the Constitution, or the Bible is an example of this device.
What is allusion?
"Be still, sad heart and stop crying" is an example of what imaginative comparison?
What is personification?
The narrator insisting he is sane—while describing the murder—is an example of this literary technique Poe uses.
→ What is unreliable narration?
In “Fire and Ice,” using fire and ice to represent human emotions is this device.
→ What is symbolism?